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Not what I expected in Two Can Play That Game. What it was is a lesson on women’s rules to control her man when he shows his ass and they all eventually do according to these rules. Vivica A Fox is Shante Smith (from Soul Food), an important ad executive that speaks to the audience throughout the film and explains her rules on controlling men. This is crap. Why a person in her position with a man that has it all together like her man Keith (Morris Chestnut, The Best Man) would have to go through this game playing it pathetic. In fact when she is punishing Keith and breaks out her black book you see what she had been dating. Once this happens she should consider herself the luckiest woman alive to be with Keith and not putting him through a game of rules and hell. She starts out describing the pitiful love lives of her friends and what they should do to get rid of those cheating, loser, deadbeat boyfriends. Then she shows us her wonderful, successful, handsome boyfriend Keith and how she keeps him happy. This was an impromptu visit to his office for a quickie on his desk. Then he slips up and she punishes him with her 10- day plan that doesn’t work like she thought it would. Why would she think she could put someone through her mind games and have him crawling to her like a wuss and still have respect for him in the end. And if he was as wonderful as she claimed why would he stick around for these games when he knows there are a lot of women out there just waiting for a chance with a guy like him. Now why these other women put up with the other men I can’t figure that out either. Either there are very few good men/women out there to date or they searched the bottom of the barrels for these significant others. After Fox describes her fabulous life, house, car and job to us adding “not bad for a girl from Compton,” she shows us her friend Conny (Gabrielle Union, Bring It On) the youngest engineer in her firm. Her man Michael (Bobby Brown) is a Jeri curl bucktoothed mechanic. After she spends a fortune on his teeth, hair and clothes he discovers he is all that and no longer brings up the topic of marriage. Her other friend Karen (Wendy Raquel Robinson, Miss Congeniality) is a petite, loud, room-smashing boyfriend beater which Fox comments that ethnics are very loud when fighting in a white persons apartment building. Her large ghetto friend Tracye (Tamala Jones, The Ladies Man) has a boyfriend that has thousands of dollars of gold in his mouth but doesn’t have a cent and sure doesn’t work. Shante is showing them how to get their men in line because they are showing their ass. What she didn’t count on is her example has to be with her man. She told the audience how to tell when a man is cheating and basically the excuse working late is your clue. Then Keith cancels dinner because he has to work late. Well we are supposed to believe he is cheating on her. Well earlier Keith was telling his friend Tony (Anthony Anderson, Exit Wounds) how much he loves Shante. Well while dining with her friends at her favorite place she spies Keith dancing with a co-worker. She plays it cool and says hey and walks away. No matter what he says now she is going to punish him. Turns out he was working late and went for a bite to eat with a co-worker, yeah a woman. Yes I know this film is supposed to show us how all this game playing and rules don’t work but it also give many ideas on how to mess with men’s mind and torment them. What kind of crap is that? If anything we need less game playing and a little more communication or honesty. Rules my ass. When have any of those rules ever worked for anyone and if it is someone you really want to be with why put them through garbage like that. Also appearing in this film is Mo’Nique as the ho Diedre who gets cold cocked by Shante only to have the scene backed up and then we see how this should have played out. I would have rather seen the KO. I did not enjoy the writing of Mark Brown or his direction. In fact a he said she said would have presented itself in a much more comical sense than this rule/game playing crap. I give this movie a four on the About-Movies.com scale. What up.
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